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"Searching" is the perfect companion for a day at the
beach, for your outdoor activities, for concentration or for your idle moments.
Millhope's instrumental music represents daydreaming, curiosity and hope.
The ingredients: spherical guitar lines, catchy analog synth melodies and field recording samples, driven by driving drums.

Searching

One with the Void

Expanse

The Loop

Gateway

A Single Flower

Everything Here Is Black and Blinding

Brand new album Geostrophic Pathways

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Geostrophic Pathways

Coalescence

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An iron will is forged through moderation, clarity, and unwavering focus. Thought transforms into structure, emotion into discipline, and hesitation dissolves into calm resolve. Every decision reinforces an inner framework where perseverance replaces doubt and direction remains firm. In this space, strength is not noisy; it is precise, steady, and unyielding. Persistence solidifies into certainty, allowing the mind to move forward without distractions, carrying purpose like a weight that no longer burdens, but stabilizes.

Radiant Canopy

Don't Fall Asleep

The Waiting Room

February

Alium

Life After

Available to stream & buy: https://KompaktRecords.lnk.to/PentagramSD

It’s been over 10 years since the release of Gui Boratto’s breakthrough full length debut 'Chromophobia'. As to what its title suggests, he shook up the techno game with a contrast of lushly coloured minimal grooves and melody, whilst many will recall that the album included the highlight single “Beautiful Life” which became a dance floor anthem for that era. Four albums in and countless EPs and remixes under his belt, the Brazilian producer's unique savoir-faire in carving out a functional album out of diversely routed singles and features is back at it on his fifth studio LP, 'Pentagram'. Here Gui Boratto lays down a nuanced 12-track narrative that reinvigorates his signature sound into a refreshingly different perspective that feels all too familiar – including the return of “Beautiful Life” vocalist (and Gui Boratto’s wife) Luciana Villanova on the single "Overload".

Through his signature kaleidoscopic approach, Boratto delivers an album built as a far-reaching hub-and-spoke system, broadly inclusive as can be. From the opening cut, 'The Walker' - hot on the trail of Tears For Fears 'Elemental' (one of Boratto’s "favourite 80's bands") - to the hi-NRG euphoria of 'Forgotten' and its pounding tech alter ego 'Forgive Me'. "I was going into 2 different directions", Boratto says; "the typical “indie- electronic-rock” Boratto kind of production like “It’s Majik” or “Like You” and a much more techno approach." He goes on, "I decided to split them into two twin sister songs. When I play live I always put these two songs together."

The Brazilian Producer further embraces the pop-friendly essence of his past work on tracks like 'The Phoenix', featuring vocalist Nathan Berger, and 'Overload', both melding acidulous synthlines with laser-precise breaks, vox hooks and drops calibrated for extended radio and club use, although sieved through his distinctive rainbow-hued musical prism. For the symbolists out there, the album's pared-down closer '618' duration accidentally happens to equate the proportions of the said pentagram. "Coincidence?" Boratto questions, and capsulises, "not so ufanista and supporter of Brazilian neo-concretism, but I guess the brazilian sculptor Lygia Clark also inspired me a lot. Not the meaning of her sculptures, but the shape of the hinge of most of her work. I’ve wanted to transmit the scientific pentagram’s point of view. It’s not a religious kind of thing."

Whereas 'Spur' (a field-tested 808 and 909-heavy "purist track", "very, very old school" Boratto insists) and 'Alcazar' are sheer smooth-edged four-to- the-floor epics, the album also shares its lot of startling moments, such as with the John Barry'esque 'Scene 2' (with a hint of Amon Tobin, 'Easy Muffin' style, throw in) and its refined string-laden buildup, 100% fitted for a 007 opening credit sequence; or with 'Hallucination' (feat B.T.) and the further James Holden-ish title-track 'Pentagram' (think 'The Idiots Are Winning'); "one of those exercises I did when I got my Buchla modular synth" Boratto analyses, "I think I’ve used more then 30 different snares, with different delays and reverbs. The whole song is alive". And so is 'Pentagram' in its entirety: alive and definitely just as manifold and hopeful as its architectonics are the stuff of science and dreams all at once.

Gui Boratto - Scene 2

Be My Organ

This is our Planet now

Beam

German-born producer and composer millhope sees his instrumental music as a source for daydreaming, curiosity, hope, and idleness. With his catchy synthesizer melodies and spherical guitar lines, pushed by driving drums and striking bass, millhope’s music takes you on a journey through dreamy soundscapes, drawing inspiration from albums like Tycho's "Dive“, Genesis's "Abacab“, Jonny Buckland’s (Coldplay) guitar lines, and Muse's synth arpeggios. 
Describing his genre as a blend of chillwave, ambient rock, and downbeat, his music is sure to be the perfect soundtrack for your daydreaming and idle moments. For him, it’s not just about the melodies - he also incorporates subtle but ever-present field recording elements, including nature-related sound collages and samples of everyday objects and instruments. And he has a certain haptic fetish, admitting that he loves the sound and feel of the PATCH NUMBER button on his Juno-60.

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